Field journal : Archbold 1936 New Guinea Exp. February 27, 1936 to July 8, 1937
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confusion to suggest any change at this date. but In regard to Sare(= Mt. Lyons (part), = Macguyon Peaks (part), = Kaban Range (part) tho situation is different. Dr. Austin, among whose sketches are numerous others definitely recognizable as depicting that Sare, informs me that his intention when using was that the name Lyons should apply to the massif itself -- the largest, most imposing mountain of the northern skyline. Instead it became localized to one part of Sare, to one of the major foothill ranges reaching out from its southern end (map, p. 436). The name Mt Lyons was proposed by him in due course (p. 439), but a few lines beyond he suggested the name MacGwyn Peaks for the western of the two mountain masses shown by Macguyon on his "plate no. 2", but, as stated earlier, Mac Gwyn's western mountain mass represents the eastern end of Mt Sare, rather Austin actually renamed a part